Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-07

by the garments they put upon nakeoness,
by the miles they Travelled to alleviate
every kind of suffering. They felt in the
thrill of every nerve, in the motion OF
every muscle, in every throb of their
heart, in every respiration of their lungs,
the magnificent truth: "No man liveth
for himself" They went through
cold aud through heat, foot-blistered,
cheek smitten, back-scourged, temp ST.
dashed, to do their whole duty. That is
the way they measured life-oy the
amount of good they could do. Do you
want to know how old Luther was: how
old Richard Baxter was; how old Philip
Doddridge was? Why, you cannot cal
culate the length of their lives by any
human arithmetic. Add to their lives 49,
| 900 times 10000 years, and you have not
expressed it-what tn y have lived or Will
live. y, what standard that is to meas
ure mans life by! There are those in
this house who think they have only lived
thirty years. They will have lived
1O00-they have lived 1000. There
are those who think they are eighty years
of age; they have not even entered upon
their Infancy, for one must become
BABE IN CHRIST
to begin at all. Now, do not know what
your advantages or disadvantages are; |
do not know what your tact or talent j.;
do not know what may be the fascina-
ton of your manners or the repu' siveness
of them; but | know this: There is for
you, my bearers, q field 10 culture, a hsr
vest TO reap, u tear to wipe away, soul
to save. If you have worldly means, con-
secrate them to Christ. II you have elo-
quence, use it on the side that Paul and
Wilberforce used theirs. If you have
learning, put it all in the poor-box OF the
worlds suffering. But if you have none
of these-neither wealth, nor eloquence,
nor learning-you at any rate have g
smile with which you can encourage the
disheartened; a frown with which you
may blast injustice; voice with ich
you may call the wanderer back to God.
49," you say, "thaG is very sanctimo-
NOUS view of llfei' 1t is not. 1t is the
only bright view of life, and it is the only
bright view of death Contrast the death
scene of man who has measured lie by
the worldly standard, with the death
scene of man who has meas
ured life by the Christian stand
ard. Quinn, the actor, in his last
moments said: 81 hope this tragic
scene will soon be over, and l hope TO
keep my dignity to the last" Malherbe
said in his last moments to the confess
or: "Hold your tongue! your miserable
style puts me out of cOnceit with
heaven" Lord Chesterfield, in his last
moments, when he ought to have been
praying for his soul, bothered himseh
about the prophecies Of the sick rQSm,
and said: "Gve Day bOles chair"
Godfrey Kneller spent his last hours on
earth in drawing diagram of his own
monument. Compare the silly and hCr-
riDle departure of such men with the !
srraphic glow on the face of Edward |
Payson, as ne Said in his last moment: |
1.-THE breeZes Of heaven ian me | float |
in q sea OF glQry." Or with Paul the |
Apostle, who said in his last hour: az !
am now resdy TO be offered up, and the |
time Of my departure is at hard. !
have fought the good fight, have kept |
the faith. Henceforth there is la up !
for me 0 crown Of righteousness which !
the Lord, the righteous Judge, WILL give
me-" Or compare it with the Christian |
death-bed that you Witnessed in your
own household. Oh, ms friends, this
world is false god, 1t will consume
you with the blaze in which it accepts
your sacrifice, while the righteous shall
be held in everlasting remembrance;
and when the thrones have fallen and the
monuments have crumbled, and the
world has perl-hed, they shall banquet
with the conquerOrs of earth &nd
THE HIERARCHs OF HEAVEN.
This is a good day in which to begin
new style OF measurement. How old
art thou? You see the Christian way of
life and the worldly way OF
it? l leave it to you to say
which is the wisest and best way. The
wheel of tire has turned very swiftly,
and it has hurled US on. The old year
has gone. The new year has come. For
what you and have been launched upon
it, God only knows.
Now let NE ask you all: Have you
made any preparation for the future?
You have made preparation Tor time, my
dear brother; have You made any prepar
alton for eternigy? Do you wonder that
when that man on the Hudson river, in
tore Cp the tract which was
handed to him, and Just one word landed
% his coat sleeve-the rest OF the tract
being pitched into the river-that one
word aroused his soul! 1t was that one
word, so long, so broad, so higd, So deep,
eternity! A dying woman, III her last
said: "Call it hack" They
said: "What do you wanf?' "Time," she
,nId; .call it back.' Oh, it cam It be
;alled back, We might lose our fortunes
ND cali them back; we might lose our
leel;h and perhaps recover it, we might
ose our good name and get that back;
)ut tire gone
is GONE FOREVER
Some of you, during the past year,
made preparation for eternity, and it
makes no difference to you really, as to
he matter OF safety, whether you go now
II go some other year-whether this yesr
II The next year. Both your feet on the J
nck, the waves may dash around you.
.treng h-s very present help" You are
IN the rock, and you may defy ell earth !
nd he'll to overthrow you. l congratu-
lappy New Year to you.
| can see no sorrow ct ell in the fact {
nat our years are going. You hear some {
,eople say: 81 wish l could go back I
gain TO boyhood." I would not want to {
% back again to boyhood. am afraid I {
night make worse life out OF it than {
lave made. You could not afford to go :
Jack to ooyhood if it were possible. You {
night do great deal worse than you
ave done. The past is gone. Look out :
y the future! {
To all Christians, it is time of glad
less. am glad the years are going.
-ou are coming on neaser home. Let +
our countensnce light up with the !
bought. Nearer M, I
Now, when one can sooner get to the :
enter of things, is he not TO be congrs:u- +
ated? Who wants to be always in the |
freshman clas-? We study God in this :
World by the biblical photograph OF Him; +
ut we all know we C&n in five minutes of +
Interview with q friend get more accurate :
iea OF rim than we can By studying him +
fly years through pictures or words. {
littIn nhill .ha- Gi...i siN r,lnnths OF Y